During the summer one of my hot weather favorites pays tribute to one of my favorite bands, Wrinkle Neck Mules.
Antics
Friday Foto 29NOV13
Hopefully you had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday.
This week’s foto is a tribute to the men and women who’s Thanksgiving was out on the tip of the spear keeping watch so we could enjoy our day.
BZ brothers and sisters, BZ
Haturday
Visitors to this blog know I wear a lot of hats.
If you have visited our home you know there is quite a collection in our guest room.
So in order to share what has become somewhat of a Sadlerian trademark, Dispatches will celebrate Haturday with an visual homage to some of those many hats!
Enjoy.
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Friday Foto
Lily goes fishing
Thinking outside the box…
Consider the cat.
Trapped in a box,
uncertain whether Schrodinger,
the only person who knows he is there,
is alive or dead.
h/t to Chris Stewart for sharing…
Cat modeling courtesy of Porter Sadler
Rx for Vegas
“Ooh, Las Vegas ain’t no place for a poor boy like me. Every time I hit your crystal city, you know you gonna make a wreck out of me.” – Gram Parsons
When I got the first text from Delta telling me that my flight home from Vegas Thursday was delayed I just knew my travel plans had started to circle the drain. I changed my flights to try and make it home, but a mechanical issue on the flight did me in. I will give Delta customer service credit they could’t have been nicer and more helpful, thanks to Kim Bailey on the phone and Georgie at the LAS check-in counter.
I was in Vegas for the AFFTA board meeting and the ICAST/IFTD trade shows. Three days of smoky hotel bars and scant periods of being outside had me more than ready for a return to the Shenandoah Valley.
Over the years I have learned to roll with travel snafus. So when I texted my buddy Chris Hunt telling him I was stuck in Vegas, his reply was “Glad your back. We’ll make the best of a bad situation ;-)”
And indeed we did!
After a quick trip back to the Convention Center to get in one more round of post show parties, I wound up eating in Chef Rick Moonen’s new restaurant Rx Boiler Room, with Hunt and Scott Hed of Sportsmen’s Alliance for Alaska fame. Rx rightly claims to be the “alchemy of food and drink.”
The food was exceptional! I enjoyed a lobster roll that would be proudly served in Newport (he knows his rolls) matched by outstanding service. Thanks Cecila!
The drinks are as special as the menu, so don’t settle for any of your standard cocktails, enjoy what the bar wizards concoct!
The decor and outfits were created by Moonen’s talented wife Roni. Billed as Steampunk, it had this glorious pirate den feel to me.
Hed knows Moonen from their work together on the Save Bristol Bay campaign and Savor Bristol Bay. Moonen is a sustainable seafood advocate who practices what he preaches and puts his money where your mouth is.
Eating at Rx gave us a chance to say thanks to Chef Moonen for his support for protecting Bristol Bay and for being such an excellent voice for sustainable seafood.